Our son was three years old when Prop 8 passed, too young to understand what was going on but just the right age to articulate his thoughts about those "Yes on 8" signs. They were, he announced, "the color of pee-pee." On some level, he got what was happening to his family.

Black support for the Calif. anti-gay-marriage proposition is higher than support among any other ethnic group, which is ironic, considering that precedence in the case is the end of the ban on interracial marriage.